US, France, Italy and UK welcome Tripoli ceasefire agreement
The governments of France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States have welcomed the United Nations-brokered ceasefire that ended weeks of battles between rival militias fighting for the control of the Libyan More...
West ‘deeply concerned’ over militia clashes in Libya
The US, Italy, France and the United Kingdom have expressed deep concern over the recent militia clashes that killed nearly 80 and displaced hundreds of people from the Libyan capital Tripoli. In a joint statement More...
US Embassy in Libya shut down, staff evacuated as violence grows
The US embassy in Libya has shut down and all diplomatic staff have been evacuated to neighboring Tunisia by military escort because of ongoing clashes and violence between rival militias sweeping the country. The More...
Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, dies of cancer
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, who was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds, dies of cancer. Eleven years after being convicted of planting a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over More...
